South-South Cooperation
Promoting intra-regional cooperation in Latin America
In line with the Agenda for the Quality and Effectiveness of the Development Aid, EUROsociAL has as a guiding principle for its actions the promotion of South-South cooperation. Through its specific tools it explores mutual learning paths and boosts network creation and horizontal exchange between institutions in the region. From the intervention scheme of the programme and thinking of the nature of the actions developed, there are different types of South-South cooperation within EURosociAL. According to their structure, they range from cases of sustained support by some institutions to others in the region, having the case of Latin American institutions that are part of the EUROsociAL Consortium, to occasional support where Latin American public institutions share their experience with other counterparts, through exchange visits or counselling. Finally, in many cases the programme has Latin American experts that share their knowledge in workshops or other types of activities run by EUROsociAL. The most active transferring countries in EUROsociAL are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. However, there is a different degree of importance both in quantitative and qualitative terms, according to the different action areas from the Programme..